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John Winkelman

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Instructor for www.sifulee.com. Blog at www.eccesignum.org. In a wonderful relationship with a wonderful partner (gallafe.com). Our cats run our lives.

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January 2026 Books and Reading Notes – Ecce Sigum

A little late, but: New blog post - Books acquired and book read in January 2026.

www.eccesignum.org/2026/02/01/j...

#BookSky #AmReading

14.02.2026 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

30.01.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 15197    πŸ” 8339    πŸ’¬ 206    πŸ“Œ 332

The rightwing eugenic project now has its own army.

30.01.2026 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mass illness is the point of concentration camps. It's not that the camps are failing, they are succeeding for their intended purpose.

30.01.2026 16:51 β€” πŸ‘ 152    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
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ICE not only looks and acts like a paramilitary force – it is one, and that makes it harder to curb ICE, created in response to 9/11, meets most definitions of paramilitary forces. Critics worry it’s gone beyond its writ of immigration enforcement.

On further reflection, ICE is more accurately described as Trump's Tonton Macoute. #FuckICE #DefundICE #ReleaseTheFiles

theconversation.com/ice-not-only...

29.01.2026 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone who thinks European libs "suddenly now" hate the US is a fucking mark Europe has used USA as a foil to disavow their own European colonial history and racism for decades, European libs and even leftists insisted racism only exists in the US and that USians are *various phobic stereotypes*

21.01.2026 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 706    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Master Lee's School of Tai Chi Praying Mantis Kung Fu and Tai Chi Jeung – Traditional Chinese Martial Arts School in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Classes for the week of January 18 2026:

Tuesday, January 20, 6:00 - 7:30 pm: Tai Chi Jeung
Thursday, January 22, 6:00 - 7:30 pm: Tai Chi Praying Mantis Kung Fu

Saturday, January 24
10:00 - 11:30 am: Tai Chi Jeung
11:30 am - 1:00 pm: Tai Chi Praying Mantis Kung Fu

www.sifulee.com

#CCKTCPM

19.01.2026 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A quiet Sunday evening. #CatSky

19.01.2026 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Volunteering Sign Up – ConFusion 2026: Magical ConFusion

Only TWELVE DAYS until Magical ConFusion! We still have room for volunteers and staff members to help us make ConFusion the most Magical event of 2026.

Staff sign-up:
2026.confusionsf.org/concom-staff...

Volunteer sign-up:
2026.confusionsf.org/volunteering...

#ConFusionSF #ConFusionMI

18.01.2026 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
ConFusion Still Confusing - Episode One
YouTube video by ConFusion Michigan ConFusion Still Confusing - Episode One

The first episode of ConFusion: Still Confusing has just been released! ConFusion's own Denise Beucler hosts a discussion between Vanessa Ricci-Thode and Jordan Kurella, on the subject of mental health and burnout. #VanessaRicciThode #JordanKurella #ConFusionMI

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE4n...

18.01.2026 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is my song. β€œThose are the real stakes β€” not white children feeling guilty, but white children armed with truth, history and a righteous desire to work with others to change the world.”

18.01.2026 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 953    πŸ” 263    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 18

Just keep coming back to the fact that keeping people in a constant state of terror is a form of mass disablement and essential to the eugenic project that is the United States.

17.01.2026 05:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1636    πŸ” 319    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 15

I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.

11.01.2026 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10646    πŸ” 2922    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 347
A black and white digital ink illustration on a toned paper background. An homage to the original illustrations by Garth Williams for E. B. White’s book β€˜Charlotte’s Web’. Standing in a wooden doorway to a barn is a contented looking young pig. Across the top hall of the doorway are several spiderwebs that have the words β€˜Maybe it will happen today’ webbed into them. The spider who made them is hanging down on a filament at the pig’s eye level.

A black and white digital ink illustration on a toned paper background. An homage to the original illustrations by Garth Williams for E. B. White’s book β€˜Charlotte’s Web’. Standing in a wooden doorway to a barn is a contented looking young pig. Across the top hall of the doorway are several spiderwebs that have the words β€˜Maybe it will happen today’ webbed into them. The spider who made them is hanging down on a filament at the pig’s eye level.

19.11.2025 14:10 β€” πŸ‘ 693    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
I know a woman, a successful writer, whose husband left her abruptly, and as he walked out the door he said with an eager, flashing little smile, β€œSomeday you can write a whole book about me.” And she sat there and thought to herself: I wouldn’t waste a minute of my life honoring that man with my craft.

I know a woman, a successful writer, whose husband left her abruptly, and as he walked out the door he said with an eager, flashing little smile, β€œSomeday you can write a whole book about me.” And she sat there and thought to herself: I wouldn’t waste a minute of my life honoring that man with my craft.

Today’s β€œliving in my brain rent-free” paragraph www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/b...

11.01.2026 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1693    πŸ” 183    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 8

Thunderstorm going on right now here in Grand Rapids. On January 8.

09.01.2026 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation was not honorable The MAGA firebrand's rebellion was short-lived and ended expediently.

"Greene hasn’t shown any signs that she wants to take accountability for her extraordinary contributions to the most venomous elements of Trumpism." 🧐

06.01.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Starting tomorrow, the Trump administration is set to send notices to 1,000 student loan borrowers (first round) noticing them of an intent to garnish their wages for student loan debt.

This is cruel and unnecessary.

If you receive a notice, send it to us and we'll try to help.

06.01.2026 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 752    πŸ” 583    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 14

Take it from a Filipino, even if you despise the current rulers of your country, you will live to regret the day the United States comes in to remove them

03.01.2026 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4700    πŸ” 904    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 32
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Promoting a New Segregation The Trump administration wants to make anti-Black racism great again.

American conservatism in a nutshell.

www.liberalcurrents.com/promoting-a-...

04.01.2026 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Breath, Warmth, and Dream Breath, Warmth, and Dream [Claybourne, Zig Zag] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Breath, Warmth, and Dream

"Pleasantly disquieting... There's much to savour in this Black speculative world where wealth, trade and magick intersect, witchery and martial arts merge in action, much action..." Eugen Bacon, Aurealis Magazine #172

Starting the year at $10 at Amazon.

04.01.2026 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A point that Wallerestein made often: as overall US power declines, it overplays its best cardβ€”military force. But each time it does so, it accelerates the decline of its overall power. SeeVietnam, Iraq. Violent coercion is the strength of the weak.

03.01.2026 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 142    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Country 9 in global oil reserves has invaded country 1 and arrested its president. Country 7 is under sanctions and its refineries are being destroyed. Country 2 is facing off with country 6. And there are riots in country 3. But oil is only $60/bbl. Maybe oil is not as critical as it used to be?

03.01.2026 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 359    πŸ” 152    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 16

This is specifically why conservative Christians voted for Trump. They have the same interests.

03.01.2026 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

03.01.2026 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 6760    πŸ” 1382    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 53
A selfie of a middle aged man in a gray sweatshirt, with two orange cats on his lap.

A selfie of a middle aged man in a gray sweatshirt, with two orange cats on his lap.

This is what my afternoon looks like.

03.01.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Since collecting Heads of State is the new rage, we have a clapped-out orange president with the mental capacity of a Big Mouth Billy Bass, along with his semi-functioning replicant wife. Free to the first taker, but you need to pick them up yourself. Needs disinfecting. Kids included.

03.01.2026 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
December 2025 Books and Reading Notes – Ecce Sigum

December 2025 books acquired and books read:

www.eccesignum.org/2026/01/01/d...

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Unnamed Source in Viral Minnesota Somali Fraud Video Is Right-Wing Lobbyist Who Called Muslims β€œDemons” David Hoch, who goes by his first name in Nick Shirley’s video allegedly exposing Somali fraud, referred to β€œdemon Muslims” on social media.

NEW: The anonymous "researcher" in Nick Shirley's viral "fraud" video--treated as a concerned citizen on Fox News and elsewhere--is actually a Minnesota state lobbyist and political activist who worked with a GOP House staffer to provide Shirley info/

theintercept.com/2026/01/03/m...

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